Chapter 21: The Time Chaser

When the first rays of the morning sun rose over the sea, Shaklin sent a very low-key carriage to pick up Diarlando. Ruidan also sat in the carriage and began to report the latest search results and research results as soon as they met.

The magic tracking experts of the Royal Jishu Academy have finally confirmed the Zuihou of the teleportation room in the underground fortress of Zannaya, and the destination of a start-up is actually the Black Rock Fort in the far north. Considering that it was the base of the traitorous Archduke Lyon, such a result did not seem unexpected.

"It can't be that far, they must be around here. Diarrando immediately shook his head and overturned Ruidan's conclusion. "I could feel that they were nearby, and to be able to deal with me and Riceth whenever and wherever they could, Fellaren wouldn't go very far. Even now, they're going on the next step of their conspiracy, I'm sure. ”

Lu Yidan honestly didn't believe that they would run so far, and after nodding in agreement, he stared at his brother's face for a long time, and Zuihou couldn't help but ask: "Big brother, did you sleep last night?" Although ordinary people can't notice it, as brothers who have lived together for more than ten years, sitting together at such a close distance, Lu Yidan immediately discovered the exhaustion that Diarlandor carefully concealed.

Stretching exaggeratedly, Diarrando simply stretched his feet to the seat opposite him very unfiguratively, and then yawned and said vaguely: "I got up so early to have an audience, of course I didn't sleep well, I'm sleepy now." ”

"Big brother...... Kenda told me what you said that day, and he told me to watch you before he rushed back to the Western Front. If there's something you can't think of, be sure to let me know! There's nothing that can't be said and worked out together. Ruidan leaned over with a sincere face, and the worry in his eyes was undisguised.

"Tsk, he's just a lot of things. Diarlando shrugged dissatisfied. Then he took the notebook out of his belt bag and threw it directly to Ruidan. "Okay, okay, I'll confess. Last night I was trying to figure out the dragon script and the records in the vault. This is the part I have so far, you can take it and study it carefully, I will make up for sleep, and I will call me when I get to the governor's palace. ”

After saying that, he picked up his hands, closed his eyes, took a nap, and pretended to sleep.

Ruidan wanted to say something, but seeing that Diarlando was so serious about pretending to be asleep, he knew that he couldn't wake up someone who wasn't asleep. I sighed and looked down at his notes.

Using his notebook to re-copy Deirlando's manuscript, Ruidan compared the words and recalled all the spells he had seen in the Palace of the Holy Light. According to the line of thought that Deirlando, those spells were indeed some projection of the dragon script. Although the Tianshu Palace has been destroyed, most of the documents are still there, so there are more words to compare, and the day is coming to know more about the secrets of the dragon clan.

In fact, there are traces of this everywhere in the Golden Dome Palace, and the badly damaged "Great Prayer Hall" has such decorative patterns everywhere, which can be taken advantage of the opportunity to be repaired. Research to see if there are five other sides buried in the wall.

The carriage drove smoothly across the Changhong Bridge, and then entered the boundary wall of the Golden Core, and in order to ensure that the place where Deirlandor was currently in seclusion was not exposed, Shaklin's carriage drove into a large mansion. Then drive directly into the Doge's Palace through the underground passage.

This is within this week. Diarrando visited the Doge's Palace for the second time, so the road was not unfamiliar. Just like last time, Shaklin couldn't wait outside the secret passage. As soon as I saw the door open. flew up and gave him a warm hug, but of course he was "politely" rejected by Deerlando.

Unstruck, Shakolin received a long roll of records from Raymond next to him. Begin to report to Deirlando how many people will be coming to see you today, and what kind of gifts they will give, etc. It's a pity that Diarrando is not interested at all. He strode toward the banquet hall where a hearty breakfast was prepared until he said the thing.

"What did you just say?" Dillando stopped because he didn't hear clearly, and asked Shakolin to repeat the name of the gift he had just reported.

"Ah...... Does Your Highness like clocks?, Viscount Tim Sayll, one of the seventh group of visitors, is going to give you the Time Chaser, which looks like an antique clock, and says that it is an heirloom treasure from some family. Shakolin rolled back the parts he had turned over and read them again.

"Turn him forward, I'm going to be the first to see him. Diarlando simply gave the order, and then added. "If the gift is ordinary gold, silver and jewelry, don't see ten or ten, fifty at a time, see it early, and finish it early. ”

Shakolin is not sad, anyway, he has already received what he should have received, and as long as those people can meet, they should not have much opinion. He then chattered about a bunch of names and gifts, and even when he arrived at the restaurant, he didn't stop, but continued to report while eating.

After a hearty breakfast at the Governor's Palace, Deirlandor sat on the throne of the Audience Hall in a new dress specially prepared by Shaklin, who had always hated the boring time-wasting formalism. Lu Yidan, who was dragged to suffer together, was calm, anyway, he had long been accustomed to praying in a daze in the Tianshu Palace.

The viscount who came up first was very thin, and had a small goatee, because he was not of high status, and although he stuffed a large sum of money, he did not expect to be the first to be received, and the whole person was trembling with excitement.

His servant was no better, shaking with a velvet-covered box. Fortunately, the person from the Governor's Palace next to him immediately accepted the gift, otherwise Diarlando would have been worried that the man would have knocked things over to the ground.

The waiter took the gift to Deirlando, and lifted the cloth, underneath which was an intricately carved table clock, just a little larger than a fist. Unlike ordinary clocks, its hands are not ordinary slender needles, but several fairies fluttering in groups. And the time is not marked by the usual circular compass with twelve points, but by a large starry sky set with diamonds.

Over time, the starry sky turns on its own. Two rings of red diamonds will appear in the direction of the fairy's finger as they move, indicating the correct time.

Regardless of the value of materials, workmanship and age, this design is indeed a bit special, delicate and chic, and refreshing. Diarrando had studied the clock for a long time, and the poor agitated audience had already stammered three times about the words he had prepared for the audience, and was beginning to say it a fourth time in a reverse.

Having come up with nothing else special, Diarlando raised his eyes and asked, "Where did this clock come from?"

"Doom...... Hui, Hui Palace, Your Highness, this is my family's ancestral, and it is said to come from the craftsmanship of the Abino dwarf clan. There is a mechanism under the bell base, if it is opened correctly...... There will be several miniature paintings about a mortal who makes a bet with the Time Fairy to see if he can catch up with time in order to save his dead wife. If he catches up, the fairy resurrects his wife. ”

"Oh~ open it and take a look. With great interest, Diarlando handed the bell to the waiter, and motioned for the waiter to open the mechanism for the original owner.

Viscount Sai'er knelt down as soon as he heard the plop, and he said with a sweaty face: "Hui, Hui, Your Highness, the villain is incompetent, and he didn't know the correct way to open it as early as his grandfather's generation. Because my grandfather died in an accident on a voyage, I didn't have time to tell my father the correct way to open it. I deserve, deserve to die, please forgive your sins!"

"......" looked at the flustered viscount speechlessly, and Diarrando waved his hand in disappointment, signaling that he could step back. After waiting for the others to go down, he leaned over and handed the bell to his younger brother: "Ruidan, have you seen that riddle translated by Rieses? I have never heard of this legend about the time fairy before, and I wonder if it is a folk tale that only exists in the area of Bai Modi." The Abinore Dwarves He Spoke ......" (To be continued......)

PS: It's really strange, weishenme obviously has 2500 words, but only shows more than 1300?